Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni (1 January 1959-) was a leading Sunni Muslim cleric from Saudi Arabia.

Biography
Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni was born on 1 January 1959, and he became a Muslim scholar, author, and activist who wrote the self-help book "Don't Be Sad", aimed at both Muslims and non-Muslims. However, he was accused of plagiarism, and he admitted that he was following a precedent of plagiarism by other Islamic scholars. al-Qarni was on a no-fly list to the United States, and on 1 March 2016 he survived an assassination attempt in Zamboanga City, Philippines by a man who was believed to be either an Islamic State gunman or a Shi'ite angered at the Saudi-Iran rivalry.